plenty to attack obama on. my god, he has been disasterous in many so many ways, if he does the right thing by the united states of america and backs off his pathetic rhetoric about red lines, republicans should not pile on. bill: come ralph peters in washington. thank you, sir. >> thank you, bill. bill: you have been with us for the last two days and we'll continue to talk to you about the changing dynamics and what we're trying to perceive and pick out from the comments we're getting now. thank you, colonel. >> thank you. bill: martha, back to you in new york. martha: bill, today, a dynamic continues to change and just looking at a story that came into the wires moments ago, that angela merkel of germany and vladmir putin of russia have agreed there needs to be a political solution to the situation in syria and that the united nations needs to be the one to handle it. so a new development on that front. we'll see where the president goes from here. of make sure to visit our politics page this morning, updatin